Cowboys’ Micah Parsons eyeing NFL sack record

Micah Parsons was the star the Dallas Cowboys wanted as a rookie final season, and he is trying ahead to capitalizing on his All-Professional marketing campaign in 2022.

Parsons seemingly completed each particular person accolade a defensive rookie may: Professional Bowler, first-team All-Professional, Defensive Rookie of the 12 months. In his second season, he is trying to accomplish one thing else: the NFL sack file.

“Yeah, 15’s just like the minimal. 15’s what I need to hit,” Parsons mentioned. “However 23 is that aim, to interrupt the file.”

Parsons wasn’t simply the perfect defensive rookie within the league. He was the runner-up to T.J. Watt for Defensive Participant of the 12 months. The Steelers edge rusher tied the all-time sack file of twenty-two.5 final season. Parsons completed with 13, falling a bit wanting the rookie file set by former Titans nice Jevon Kearse in 1999. 

Nonetheless, he proved he is Dallas’ defensive centerpiece for the foreseeable future. With that comes extra duty and elevated expectations.

“I simply take the blessings that God gave me,” he mentioned. “I do not really feel like I want to succeed in anybody’s expectations however my very own. If I can stay with it, I can cope with it. I am gonna simply go on the market and play my sport. I do not wanna go on the market and chase nobody’s story, I simply gotta do my factor, and that is what obtained me right here, and that is what I am gonna hold doing.”

What makes Parsons genuine is his versatility. His straight-line velocity and agility resemble a defensive again. One might mistake his energy for a lineman, however he has the physique of a linebacker.

With that range, he seems so as to add interceptions to his instrument belt.

“I instructed Tre I’d lead the group in picks this yr,” he mentioned of nook Trevon Diggs, who led the NFL with 11 INTs. “We do not obtained no cash on it, however I have been actually practising my fingers this yr to get my fingers on a few picks this yr.”

A season an identical to final yr could be spectacular for Parsons. Something extra, together with the all-time sack file, would put him in an much more choose firm. 

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